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Persons with disabilities: adapting spaces and attitudes

On a visit to the Forest Reservation of Grajaú, Renata Glasner realized she would not be able to see all of the place due to the lack of wheelchair ramps. On another occasion, she could not have a single drink in a party since there were no adapted bathrooms. Renata is a wheelchair user and now follows...

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On the eve of the 2020 Census, have a sneak peak of the news that marked the year at the IBGE

Throughout 2019, the IBGE News Agency has disclosed information produced by the IBGE in order to accomplish its mission of portraying Brazil for the exercise of citizenship. The main results of studies and surveys, in the fields of geography and statistics, were highlighted in news and articles, complemented with...

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In August, furniture and household appliances keep retail on the rise

The volume of sales of the retail trade increased 3.6% in August, in comparison with the same month of 2016. It is the biggest monthly change since this recovery started, in April. The highlights were furniture and household appliances, whose sales grew 16.5% in relation to August last year. In the cumulative...

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Seminar recalls 40 years of IPCA, discusses future of inflation measurement

Francisco de Assis Melo, Cimar Azeredo and Gustavo Vitti discuss, over the Internet, the evolution of inflation measurement. "The IBGE is the house of figures, the house of precision, and so it should be." The brief description – albeit true – of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics´mission...

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IBGE defends the need for the 2021 Census budget

In an article published in O GLOBO (Brazilian newspaper) on Monday (March 22), the IBGE president, Ms. Susana Cordeiro Guerra, and the Director of Surveys, Mr. Eduardo Rios-Neto, defended the need to restore the 2021 Population Census's allocated money. Next, you will find the translated versions of...

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Unemployment remains stable, but informality increases in May

The number of employees in the private sector without a formal contract increased by 2.9% in the quarter from March to May 2018 compared to the previous quarter. In absolute numbers, the result represents more than 307 thousand people in jobs without several labor rights guarantees. Compared to the same...

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Drop of 16.8% in retail sales in April is the sharpest in 20 years

Isolation measures contributed to the remarkable decrease in sales in April - Rovena Rosal/Agência Brasil Retail sales fell 16.8% in April, compared to the previous month, reflecting the effects of social isolation to control the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the worst result since the beginning of the time...

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Number of people tested for Covid-19 rises to 25.7 million by October

Within a month, nearly 3.7 million people got tested for Covid - Photo: Christiano Antonucci/Governo MT The number of people who got tested for Covid-19 rose to 25.7 million in October. Of this total, about 5.7 million tested positive for the disease, which corresponds to 22.4% of the people who tested...

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Deceleration of beef prices results in inflation preview of 0.71% in January

Beef prices rose 4.83% and affected the IPCA-15 of January - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15), official inflation preview, was 0.71% in January, after reaching 1.05% in December 2019, as released today (23) by the IBGE. That is the highest...

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Employment remains stable, but underutilized population is the biggest since 2012

The survey registered records of underutilized, underemployed and discouraged workers - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News agencies Unemployment remained stable and reached 13 million persons in the quarter ended in May, but the underutilized contingent was the largest since 2012, reaching 28.5 million...

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Trade sector increases hiring in 2017, but does not make up for three-year losses

Trade sector recorded a real increase of 7% in net revenue from 2016 to 2017 - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency The trade sector employed 10.2 million persons in 2017, which means 98.2 thousand employed persons more than in 2016. However, that increase was not enough to recover the loss of 411.8...

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Fuels boost forecast of August's inflation

The Extended National Consumer Price Index 15 (IPCA-15) had a change of 0.35% in August, the second biggest result of the year, just behind February (0.54%), and well above July (-0.18%). The sector of Transportation recorded the highest increase, advancing 1.35% and 0.24 percentage points of influence...

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Industry prices fall 1.46% in December, but 2018 boosts the series

The decline of 1.46% in industry prices in December was not enough to avoid the 9.76% increase in the cumulative index in 2018, which was the highest in the time series started in 2014. The data are from the Producer Price Index (IPP), published today by the IBGE, which measures the price changes of...

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Previous inflation stays at 0.30%, lowest rate for January since 1995

The previous inflation stayed at 0.30% in January, the lowest rate for January since the implementation of the Real Plan in July 1994, whereas the cumulative index over the last 12 months stood at 3.77%. The rate was 0.39% compared with January 2018. The information is from the Extended National Consumer...

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Leveraged by women, consumption of alcohol increases among Brazilians in 2019

According to the PNS, number of women drinking at least once a week increased - Photo: Marcelo Camargo/Agência Brasil Brazilians are consuming more alcoholic beverages. Or rather, women: 17% of adult women stated to have drunk once or more per week in 2019. The index is 4.1 percentage points higher than...

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Sales drop 0.6% in April, retail loses strength after two months stable

The sector of hypermarkets accrues a loss of 3.4% between February and April - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency Volume of sales of the retail dropped 0.6% in April in relation to March, after two months of stability. This result is the worst for April since 2015 (-1%). As a result, the sector is...

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Drop in Food and Lodging contributes to low August in services

The only activity down in August in the comparison with July, the sector of services rendered to families (-4.8%) was mainly to blame for the 1% drop registered in the Monthly Survey of Services (PMS), released today by the IBGE. The segment had been having a three-consecutive-month period of highs,...

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Use of geospatial technologies updates Brazilian borderland strip (2)

A bridge connects the municipality of Foz do Iguaçu (PR) with Puerto Iguazu, in Argentine - Photo: Fernando Araújo/IBGE With the aid of a group of modern geospatial technologies, the IBGE has updated the length of the border strip that connects it with South American countries. That national security...

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Automotive sector contributes to production growth in São Paulo

Driven by the automotive sector, the industrial production in São Paulo grew 14.8% in the comparison between April this year and the same month of 2017, according to the data of the Monthly Survey of Industry (PIM) - Regional Production, released today by the IBGE. The state was one of the 13 places...

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Infrastructure works lose share in sector in 10 years

The share of infrastructure works in civil construction strongly dropped between 2007 and 2016, changing from 41.3% to 29.5% of the value added. As the investments in public works decelerated, building construction and specialized services increased. These data are in the Annual Survey of Construction...